Yingjin ZHANG, Ph.D. (Stanford)
| Yingjin Zhang received his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1987 and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University in 1992. Before joining the UCSD faculty in 2001 as Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies, he taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he was honored with an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 1996. He served as President of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature in 1993-94 and received, among others, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 1995-96, a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999, and a Fulbright China Research Fellowship in 2003-04. His teaching interests include Chinese and comparative literature, Chinese cinema (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Asian and Asian American cinema, media industry, visual culture, urban studies, transnational cultural politics, and cultural history. Apart from Chinese books, he has published six books and numerous essays in English with academic presses such as Curzon, Duke, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Routledge, and Stanford. His research articles in Chinese and English have appeared in American Studies, Asian Cinema, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, Cinema Journal, Comparative Literature in China, Concentric, Con-temporary, Contemporary Cinema, Contemporary Writers Review, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies and Literary Theory, East-West Film Journal, Film Art, Journal of Beijing Film Academy, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Modern China, Modern Chinese Literature, New Cinemas, Positions, Reading, Studies of Modern Chinese Literature, Tamkang Review, Twenty-First Century, Unitas, and World Literature Today. |
AWARDS
| Fulbright China Research Fellowship in 2003-04, Research Grant, UCSD Academic Senate, 2003-2004 Mini Grant, UC Pacific Rim Research Program, 2003-2004 Instructional Improvement Award, UCSD Academic Affairs, 2002-2003 Faculty Fellowship, UCSD Center for the Humanities, Fall 2002 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana U, 2000, 1996, 1995, 1993 Summer Faculty Fellowship, NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), 1999 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana U, 1997 Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, U of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1995-1996 Pre-dissertation Graduate Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 1991-1992 |
INVITED LECTURES
| 2003: City U of Hong Kong, Pacific Lutheran U, U of Washington |
| 2002: Emory U, Stanford U |
| 2001: UCSD, Indiana U, U of Southern California, Lingnan U (Hong Kong), City U of Hong Kong, Rutgers U |
| 1999: Fu Jen Catholic U, National College of Arts (both Taiwan) |
| 1998: U of Notre Dame |
| 1997: UC-Berkeley, Ohio State U |
| 1996: Beijing U, Nankai U, Xiamen U (all China), Indiana U, U of Iowa |
| 1995: Duke U, U of Michigan, Stanford U |
| 1994: UCSD, U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| 1993: Indiana U |
| 1992: Indiana U |
CONFERENCE PAPERS
| 2003: U of Florida-Gainesville, International Comparative Literature Association (Hong Kong) |
| 2002: American Comparative Literature Association (U of Colorado-Boulder), U of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, U of Notre Dame, U of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2001: New York U |
| 2000: Hong Kong Baptist U, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (Indiana U), UCLA |
| 1999: UC-Irvine, Modern Language Association (Chicago), Society for Cinema Studies (West Palm Beach) |
| 1998: Association for Asian Studies (Washington, D.C.), U of Chicago |
| 1997: Association for Asian Studies (Chicago) |
| 1995: Association for Asian Studies (Washington, D.C.), Beijing U |
| 1994: Association for Asian Studies (Boston), American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature (Indiana U), U of Pittsburgh |
| 1993: Association for Asian Studies (Los Angeles), Society for Cinema Studies (New Orleans) |
| 1992: American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature (UCLA), Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), Ohio U |
| 1991: UC-Berkeley, Modern Language Association (San Francisco), Society for Cinema Studies (U of Southern California) |
| 1990: American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature (Duke), Asian Studies at the Pacific Coast (Stanford U), Stanford U, Western Humanities Conference (UC-Berkeley) |
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
| Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (Hong Kong), since 1997 |
| Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (Indiana U), 1998-2001 |
FILM EVENTS
| Coordinator, "New Chinese Documentaries, 1995-2001," a weekly series of the REC Foundation collections, UCSD, Fall 2002 |
| Guess appearance, "View Point Asia" program on Chinese cinema, UCSD TV, Fall 2002 |
| Juror, "The Taipei Film Awards" for commercial film entries at the Third Annual Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, November 2000 |
| Advisor, Harvard U Annual Series on Chinese Cinema, since 1999 |
| Consultant, In the Realm of the Electric Shadows (60 min.), a documentary about Chinese cinema directed by Herbert Krill for ZDF German TV and aired in France and Germany in 1997 |
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